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...great, he says, to drop in a dime for the subway and see if they try to stop you for being under...
...cousins. Obsequies provide a chance for catching up on the latest gossip or to do a little business. Southerners still pay condolence calls in the parlor, where they sit for hours with the bereaved, rarely mentioning the dead. At times, church services can be as flowery as a dime-store sympathy card-or as colorful as an Erskine Caldwell novel. Recently one backwoods Alabama dirt farmer was laid out in a dark suit, white shirt and tie. The old man had never before been so well dressed. His impressed relatives removed him from the casket, propped him against a wall...
Today Perdue spends $1 million a year on advertising. In 1964 he employed 265 people, today nearly 3,200. Perdue Inc. supplies chicks and feed to 900 contract growers, who raise the broilers for a fee of about a dime each. "We mix our own grain," says Perdue. "We have our own poultry veterinarians and nutritionists. We leave no stone unturned in getting the best product...
...Paul Getty once kept a pay phone at his English mansion, but he wasn't the sort to nickel and dime his women−except possibly his wives. The oil billionaire was married and divorced five times before he died this month at 83, but his will mentioned only No. 5−Louise Lynch Getty of Santa Monica, Calif., a singer who wed Getty in 1939 and gets $55,000 a year for life. Eleven other women shared in Getty's largesse, including a German countess, a French art dealer, Getty's Nicaraguan companion Rosabella Burch...
...Americans." To that end he avoids shrillness and controversy. He claims the first priority of the black press today is to set the same standards he does: "Have the highest possible credibility. Get it straight, accurate and honest so people can believe you." He charges a dime for his paper, up five cents in 48 years...